On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:08:45PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:56:32PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>>There are two kinds of symlinks, Windows style (with .lnk ending) and >>>pure Cygwin symlinks, binutils obviously contains Cygwin stlye >>>symlinks. >> >>setup.exe only creates pure cygwin symlinks. I suspect that the > >So symlinks included in the tarball are not simply restored in the same >style they were generated / tarred? Interesting.
tar is a unix utility. Symlinks in tar files are stored as... symlinks. The creation of symlinks is handled by whatever is interpreting the tar file. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
